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Critic Reviews
Aug 7, 2023
Season 3 Review:
If the new season isn’t as funny as it should be — don’t get me started on various characters brought back from earlier seasons with diminishing returns — and it isn’t as mysterious as it could be, why is it still entertaining enough for a tepid recommendation? Because, as I said up top, it plays effectively as drama.
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Aug 27, 2024
Season 4 Review:
“Only Murders” has become comforting in its rhythms. The writers have a working formula, and they use that formula well. But I’m really not watching for the mystery anymore — even though there are plenty of twists and turns this season. I’m watching to see who pops up next and how much they can make me giggle.
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Jun 27, 2022
Season 2 Review:
If what you want from “Only Murders” is to watch its characters do more of the same things that made you laugh the first time around, then the new season is a good time. But — like many of TV’s attempts to turn what felt like a completed story into a multi-season saga — it does not send its investigation in a whole new direction.
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Aug 30, 2021
Season 1 Review:
All of those seasoned performers provide moments of pleasure, and the various narrative threads play out with polished proficiency. But “Only Murders” doesn’t gel into something beyond the ordinary. Part of the problem is the time devoted to the show’s sentimental side ... That material takes some of the life out of what’s otherwise a slight but charming comedy, and it doesn’t do any favors to Martin, whose performance is a little dour and closed off, or to Gomez, who looks uncomfortable and occasionally terrified.
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Sep 28, 2021
Season 1 Review:
This ten-episode charmer, streaming on Hulu, is a fine sendup of media culture, in particular the true-crime genre. ... No deep feelings are stirred, yet the laughs come steadily, especially because of Short, a master at embodying the helpless narcissism of Broadway’s show-biz denizens.
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The Observer (UK)Sep 10, 2024
Season 3 Review:
Obviously, Only Murders… will be too soft-core/fluffy for some, but it manages to remind everyone that TV crime doesn’t have to mean 24/7 gritty realism and thinly veiled torture porn. If the murders are markedly less alarming than the jazz hands, that’s all part of the charm.
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The PlaylistJul 27, 2023
Season 3 Review:
The addition of great guest stars this year gives each of the leads new character beats to explore. Even the case this season feels less made-up as it goes along than it did in season two, which ended with something of a thud in its final reveal. Most of all, season three doesn’t feel like a repeat of the first two, amplifying the strengths of those seasons in a way that allows the performers to shine again.
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The PlaylistAug 23, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It’s disappointing that they sometimes feel constrained by the writing that forces them to repeat the same character beats since they’re capable of so much more, but there are just enough times that they break through their confines and produce genuine, character-driven laughs. Every episode of “Only Murders in the Building” has just enough unexpected humor to keep it moving.
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The TelegraphAug 26, 2024
Season 4 Review:
The pace dips somewhat toward the middle of the eight episodes and there isn’t nearly enough Streep. But there are lots of twists – including a cameo that Disney+ is keen to keep under wraps. All of which adds up to a killer season from a streaming sensation that has taken on a life of its own.
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The TelegraphJul 27, 2023
Season 3 Review:
The play’s the thing, and when you’re having this much fun, the show says, who’s going to get pernickety about plotholes? Because if Only Murders is anything, it is splendid fun. There is something delectably arch about the whole thing, a piece of well-worked stagecraft that nonetheless feels unorthodox at a time when so much TV takes itself so very seriously.
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The TelegraphAug 31, 2021
Jun 27, 2022
Season 2 Review:
It’s mostly for the best that they’ve decided not to fix what wasn’t broken.So, aside from the fact they’re now trying to clear their own names—and Mabel’s in particular—fans can expect more of the same charming, intergenerational citizen-detective stuff they fell hard for last summer.
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TV Guide MagazineSep 17, 2024
Season 4 Review:
The whodunit storyline is solid, with plenty of authentic twists and surprising revelations. But it's the character comedy that keeps us coming back. [16 Sep - 6 Oct 2024, p.11]
TV Guide MagazineAug 10, 2023
Season 3 Review:
Only Murders is more a team effort, and the new season struggles at times with a split focus between putting on a show and solving a crime. The backstage shenanigans are great fun, though, and the guest casting raises to a new level. [14 Aug - 3 Sep 2023, p.6]
TV Guide MagazineSep 13, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Fitfully amusing. ... Series cocreator Steve Martin is the most endearing as Charles. ... Martin Short has the most fun. ... Selena Gomez deadpans effectively but often deadens the pace of an overlong misadventure that might have made a snappier movie. [13 - 26 Sep 2021, p.17]
Aug 8, 2023
Season 3 Review:
It’s no longer a surprise that Gomez enjoys such unlikely platonic chemistry with Martin and Short, or that Hoffman and Martin keep finding new ways to expand their characters’ insular world. It is a surprise, and a pleasant one, to see how that expansion takes shape, and who stops by to help fill the space.
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Aug 30, 2021
Season 1 Review:
“Only Murders” delights in its many (rather predictable) twists, but moreso in the chemistry between its three leads. ... The intricacies of the people and setting of “Only Murders” are what ultimately make the show such a pleasure to dive into, and so easy to marathon without necessarily intending to.
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